1800-1850
GUSN-10740
Scissor-style snuffer with levered automatic slide in the blade box; rests on three feet; cast out of iron (with steel blade?).
candle snuffers
casting (process)
iron (metal)
steel (alloy)
Iron
Steel
Cast
Candlesnuffer
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2 1/4 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.597
Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. "Old-Time IFM Snuffers," Antiques Magazine, November 1929. [No Publisher].
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